In my post about the idiotic over-reaction to a New Jersey 10-year-old posing with his new squirrel rifle , Dana Garrett left me this response: One waits, apparently in vain, for you to post the annual rates of children who either shoot themselves or someone else with a gun. But then you Libertarians are notoriously ambivalent to and silent about data and facts and would rather talk abstract principles and fear monger (like the government will confiscate your guns). It doesn't require any degree of subtlety to see why you are data and fact adverse. The facts indicate we have a crisis with gun violence and accidents in the USA, and Libertarians offer nothing credible to address it. Lives, even the lives of children, get sacrificed to the fetishism of liberty. That's intellectual cowardice. OK, Dana, let's talk facts. According to the Children's Defense Fund , which is itself only querying the CDCP data base, fewer than 10 children/teens were killed per year in Delaw
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Also, a BOOYAH! Hell ya!
The Bush tax cuts prevented the real estate bubble and the resulting Depression that we're in today
It was too good to be true...
Problem with this video: what Johnson does NOT say is that he wants to replace all of those taxes with the "Fair Tax" consumption tax, supposedly revenue neutral.
It may or may not be, but I had the same concern as to why he didn't give the rest of his usual spiel and say what he was going to do instead.
And Johnson's "fair tax" is regressive no matter how you slice it. On a percentage basis, higher-income people tend to spend less of their income than lower-income people.
And your question "But what good is income without spending it?" is silly. Did you ever hear of investing?
You should look a little closer before you claim that the Fair Tax "is regressive no matter how you slice it." Although this graph does rise less steeply above a million dollars, there is no way it can be described as anything other than progressive.
And your question, "Did you ever hear of investing?" is even sillier. You look at the surface of things, but rarely follow through to consider their consequences.
It would be impossible to invest money if nobody was going to spend that money.
See how that works anonone?